Defining Love Community Salon: Love for Community

What does love require of us when we talk about loving our community?

This in-person Defining Love Community Salon explores Black love as something we practice through care, responsibility, accountability, and collective action.

Guests will gather at Urban Garden Brewhouse for a screening of the Defining Love: Voices of Black D.C. proof of concept, a reading from The Black Love Book, guest conversation, and an opportunity to reflect together on what loving our communities asks of us.

Come early, get settled, purchase food or drinks from the venue if you’d like, meet someone new, and join us for an evening rooted in film and conversation.

Tuesday, September 29
6:30–8:00 PM
Urban Garden Brewhouse
624 T St NW
Washington, DC

Moderator + Guest Speakers

Moderator: Rob Lee
Truth in this Art Podcast Producer & Artist

Tracy Chiles McGhee
Author & Cultural Curator

Tracy Chiles McGhee is an award-winning author and cultural curator whose work primarily illuminates the lives and legacies of Black women through writing, public humanities, and community engagement.

Alexandra Cenatus
Director of Programs, Maryland Humanities

Alexandra Cenatus serves as Director of Programs at Maryland Humanities, where she creates community-centered programming designed to make the humanities accessible, engaging, and rooted in lived experience.

What to expect

• Time to arrive, connect, and purchase food or drinks from the venue
• Defining Love proof-of-concept screeningSalon raffle
• Reading from The Black Love Book
• Moderated guest conversation
• Audience participation
• Salon raffle drawing

Food + drinks

Guests are encouraged to purchase food and drinks directly from Urban Garden Brewhouse during the evening.

Getting there

Urban Garden Brewhouse is located at 624 T St NW. The nearby Shaw–Howard University Metro station serves the Green and Yellow Lines.

Salon raffle

Three attendees will win a prize at this salon:

• 1 gift card winner
• 1 winner of an 18x24 Defining Love: Voices of Black D.C. poster
• 1 winner of the 3rd edition of The Black Love Book e-book

Across the four salons, gift card prizes will feature four local Black-owned D.C. businesses: Nubian Hueman, Urban Garden Brewhouse, Sankofa Video Books & Cafe, and Luxie Spa.

Register for and attend this salon to be entered into its drawing.

No purchase or donation necessary. Donations do not increase your chances of winning.

About Defining Love: Voices of Black D.C.

Defining Love: Voices of Black D.C. is a documentary-in-progress gathering Black Washingtonians’ reflections on love through the five tenets of Black Love Day: Creator, Self, Family, Community, and Black Diaspora.

The project is produced and directed by Zoë Poindexter through Black Love Documentary LLC and is funded in part by a grant from HumanitiesDC